The Years We Can't Hire Back
When I was studying in college, many people switched to computer science from other departments. Nowadays, people ask me if they should get a CS degree. They are surprised by my...
Engineering, Leadership, and Life
I write about software engineering, leadership, and the judgment built through messy systems, team decisions, mistakes, and curiosity beyond work.
The Cost of Looking Competent
Sophia has been with the company for over a decade. In that time, she grew in her role and established herself as one of the goto people, eventually earning her staff title. In...
The Double-Counted Future
In 1997, Jeff Bezos sent a letter to shareholders about Day 1\. Despite the rapid growth he was seeing, he wanted to keep the startup mentality. He wanted to give ownership alon...
Nobody is Thinking Anymore
Everyone works in AI circles. There's a specification at least halfwritten by AI. There's a piece of code 80% written by AI. There's a strategy document 60% written by AI. If ev...
The Void Job
More than a decade ago, I was working on a job scheduler similar to Airflow. We called it Woodsy internally. At first, it was quite simply an application that only uploaded CSV...